Russia Culture

We received this culture from Russian-born Tanya Bevin who contacted us because she was in culture shock from our commercial breads and was looking for an Old World starter. We sent her our Finnish culture and we soon became acquainted. She is a Russian tour guide living in Seattle and seemed to be the ideal person to bring us a Russian culture. In fact she brought us two. This one is from the village of Palekh two hundred miles northeast of Moscow. It is a fast leavening culture, handles heavy Russian whole wheat doughs quite well and works very well in home baking machines.